198 results found for: Prisoners of War (Pows)
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…David Gorrie would die in a mid-air collision on April 8th, 1941. David G Gorrie Of the half of those eight pilots in the photograph who survived the war, British-Canadian Hamilton Charles Upton died in 1965. Sgt. J Arbuthnot, Sgt. R Plenderleith, Sgt. HJL Hallowes [Signatory 14], F/Lt. JWC Simpson,…
…service and sacrifice of his own regiment, as well as Far East Prisoners of War (POWs) alongside other civilian victims of savage war, atrocities and repression, particularly in Asia beyond the Mukden Incident, Japanese Occupation of Manchuria, and First Battle of Shanghai Sep31-Mar32; also recalling all those who helped them…
…months of the war serving at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent, Maryland. Vraciu ended the war as the U.S. Navy’s fourth highest ranking ace, credited with downing a total of nineteen enemy aircraft and destroying twenty-one on the ground. Post war service Following World War II, Vraciu was…
…in, in World War II, Imperial War Museum. CC BY-SA 2.0 (2008) “In January 1942 Deere embarked on a short tour of the United States to teach fighter tactics to American pilots. He was back in action three months later, taking command of a Canadian spitfire squadron before being posted…
“One thing that angered him very much was the lack of recognition of the part that science and technology had played in winning the Second World War.” Donaldson, David Abercrombie; Sir Samuel Curran (1912-1998), DL, MA, PhD, DSc, LLD, ScD, FRS; University of Strathclyde. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/sir-samuel-curran-19121998-dl-ma-phd-dsc-lld-scd-frs-155741 The science of war and…
…intensely.” Sir Tasker’s medals include the VC and MBE. Mr Dart believes Sir Tasker’s reaction to the painting is typical of that of war heroes. “Nobody likes to glorify war,” he said. “Sir Tasker simply did his duty. He just got on with it and in doing that he won…
…known as 1 Squadron. At the outbreak of World War One it was reformed with aeroplanes, thereafter becoming one of the leading British fighting scout units on the Western Front. During the interwar period the unit remained in existence, and in October 1938 some of the first Hawker Hurricane monoplane…
…and the war’s end – with a little reflective comment at the end. Johnnie was actually a gifted writer and a highly intelligent, well-read, individual. Indeed, his wartime memoir Wing Leader, published in 1956, remains well-read even today – and contains some stunning descriptive passages of flying and fighting in…
…Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) as a pilot and was described in her Telegraph obituary as “arguably the most remarkable woman pilot of the Second World War.” ‘She joined the ATA in July 1940 and worked until the end of the war, when the ATA was disbanded. She had delivered over…
…international pressure, and Argentina joined other Latin American countries and declared war on Germany and Japan, but by this time the war was all but over, on 27th March 1945. Brazil was under its dictator Getúlio Vargas maintained its neutrality until August 1942. After German submarines attacked Brazilian ships in…
…Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205158468 “I have never met a braver man” James Magennis was the only Northern Irish VC awarded in the Second World War, and the first acquired by Lord Ashcroft for his renowned VC collection now on display in Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum in London. Belfast…
…peacetime CARRIER’S first role, with his returning on INDEFATIGABLE which was bringing the FAR EAST PRISONERS OF WAR back to UK, a mission that those on board would not forget, adding to an anti-climactic UK welcome home. 801 & 802 on OCEAN & SEA FURIES for the KOREAN WAR, then…
…titles, only finally accepting the OM (after declining a CH) because it was in the Queen’s gift – he was always an ardent royalist. He accepted a peerage last year. He married, briefly in war-time, the American actress Constance Binney. Later he married Sue Ryder, now Baroness Ryder of Warsaw,…
…filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle. When captured by the Gestapo in 1944, Madame de Clarens had both the mettle and heart to warn her companions, who successfully escaped. With her place in history secure and having spent the last year of the war…
…80 million passengers each year, employing 120,000 people, and contributing over £6 billion to the UK economy. He was a fighter ace, with 9 kills to his name, in one war, and Under-Secretary of State for Air, in Winston Churchill’s wartime government, in another. Night-flying by Ambrose McEvoy 1917 (unfinished…
“one of the top scoring Royal Air Force fighter pilots of the Second World War and the second highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain” World War Two fighter pilot James Harry “Ginger” Lacey is being honoured with a blue plaque this weekend at his birthplace –…
…six months of the war in Europe on the Operations Staff. Post-war with a permanent commission and a Bracknell Staff College course, he was sent to join the OCCUPATION FORCES in JAPAN before Malaya and Singapore and returning to join the Central Fighter Establishment as CFI of the Day Fighter…
…months later, he arrived safely home in Britain. It sealed his membership of an exclusive band of brothers whose wartime exploits have been largely forgotten. In World War II, a quarter of a million Allied soldiers and airmen were stranded behind enemy lines and became prisoners of war. Just a…
…Switzerland and joined the British Legation at Berne. Here he remained for the rest of the war, and despite confirmed rumours of the Nazi Gestapo placing a “price” on his head, he commenced a second war; a secret war of counter intelligence and “underground” activity which for a long time…
“I saved her life in the war… and later she became ‘Audrey Hepburn’” “Michael Burn was one of the last survivors of the naval commando raid on St Nazaire, after which he was captured and imprisoned at Colditz. Michael Burn (left) captured, indicating the success of the raid with his…
…to retrain as an engineer. Reluctantly, he moved to the RAF School of Aeronautical Engineering at Henlow. He was saved, however, a few weeks later by the outbreak of the war, which immediately posed a need for trained pilots. Polish War Memorial at Northolt After France and the desert, “Rosie”…
…One Man’s Guerrilla War, and Chindits: Long Range Penetrations.” “Calvert had one of the most courageous, long, varied and influential WW2 careers. He signs for the regular Royal Engineers (training in 1933), Chindits, and the Special Air Service, which he commanded at the war’s end. After RMA Sandhurst, Cambridge, wartime…
…Air Force, Navy and Merchant Navy. Some Māori women served in the Army Nursing Service and the women’s army, air force and navy auxiliaries. Between 1939 and 1945 almost 16,000 Māori volunteered for war service, out of a total population of fewer than 100,000. (Source: https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/story-of-the-28th/about-the-28th) https://business.facebook.com/MaoriBattalion/ https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/view.php?uid=219830 https://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/pow/powcamp.php?pid=3097 https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/maori-battalion-march-to-victory-1990…
…at Stalag III-A, Luckenwalde and Stalag Luft III, Beleria; fear of being used as hostages; bartering with German civilians; desertion of guards on approach of Soviet Army; arrival of Soviet Army; Russian accounting for POWs; debriefing on return to GB; relations between POWs. (Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum) …